- Student reading path The order in which to read the student pages and the help pages they build on - week one orientation, a first site, the core explanations, the learning path of your choice, the study projects, contributing, and the…
- The first 90 days after adoption What adopters do in the first 90 days after go-live with Exponential - hypercare in the first two weeks, settling routines in the first month, the first update and restore test, a review after 90 days, and handing over…
- Who to call A fill-in contact sheet for an Exponential site and a plain table of which problem goes to whom - your administrator, developer, host, registrar, mail provider, partner or the community - so you know whom to call before…
- Writing history posts How to write "this month in Exponential history" and other history posts from the project's own chronicle and ledger - choose a month or theme, cite commits, explain what became possible, use the old name correctly…
- Citing sources and licensing your writing How advocates cite the documentation and code correctly, quote under the GNU FDL and the GPL, credit other people's work, use material from eZpedia and Share, and choose a license for their own posts, talks and videos…
- Handling messages and privacy What a local business does with the messages that arrive through its Exponential forms - reading them in the mailbox and in Collected information, answering, exporting, deleting old submissions, the privacy note…
- Help pages by topic, for students A topic index for learners into the rest of the Exponential help - installing, editing, content model, templates and design, layouts, languages, search, users and roles, extensions and development, the REST API…
- Moving from Exponential templates (.tpl) to Exponential Smarty templates (.stpl) Exponential renders Smarty 5 templates (.stpl) itself, next to .tpl - when to choose .stpl and when to stay with .tpl, what changes and what stays (operators, fetch, functions, overrides, caching, includes both ways…
- Recognition and credit in the community How Exponential credits the people who contribute - authorship in the Git history, the documentation's copyright notice, credit for other projects, sponsor recognition by tier, partner levels and points - and what is…
- Story: an assistant that writes drafts only A feature story on one design decision of Exponential Intelligence - it writes drafts and never publishes on its own - with the safeguards around it (permissions, approval workflow, audit, master switch) and the facts…
- The ecosystem for decision makers What the Exponential ecosystem means for someone deciding on a platform - longevity, responsibility, help, people to hire, extensibility and lock-in - with the proof for each and the questions to ask.
- Version numbers The version fields of a site package, version number and release, the ezpublish product version, the version attribute of the package element and the version in index.xml, what each one is used for, how eZPackageVersion…
- Funding the community Where the money and time that keep Exponential alive come from, the two organizations you can sponsor and how they differ, partnership as a way for companies to fund the project, and how individuals with any budget can…
- Moving from Exponential templates (.tpl) to Twig templates (.twig) Exponential renders Twig 3 templates (.twig, .html.twig) itself, next to .tpl and .stpl - when to choose .twig, what changes and what stays (operators as filters and functions, fetch, template functions, includes…
- Publishing on Share and Projects How advocates publish on the community's own sites - Share (share.exponential.earth) for forums, blogs, articles and tutorials, and Projects (projects.exponential.earth) for extensions and community projects - what each…
- Story: Exponential Velocity A feature story about Exponential Velocity, the PHP web and application server bundled with Exponential - what it is, where it came from, how young it is, what it changes for site owners - with printable facts, sources…
- Thumbnails and screenshots The pictures of a site package, the thumbnail and image file lists in package.xml, where the files go in the archive, how the setup wizard chooses between a package's own thumbnail, the thumbnail_url of index.xml and…
- Contributing to eZpedia How advocates help the community encyclopedia eZpedia (ezpedia.exponential.earth) - what it is, its GFDL license, what to write or update, how to keep historic names correct, and how it relates to the help in the…
- Converting templates between template engines The exp:template:convert command space converts templates between Exponential templates (.tpl), Smarty templates (.stpl) and Twig templates (.twig) in every direction - the six named commands, the general command, the…
- Declaring dependencies How a site package names the packages it needs, the require element with type, name and min-version, why the list must be flat and in install order, what the setup wizard and the create sites step do with it, the errors…
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